... the sovereign right to kill but also the sovereign right of clemency. Only by reading Beccaria's text from this standpoint, the essay concludes, can we grasp the internal limits of the abolitionist theory and practice that inherits its problematic from Beccaria. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Adam Sitze...

... not tell which was the shadow and which the life, until both came together at last upon a ledge, and made a little peak-shouldered devilish thing with strangely twisted ears. . . . I even found myself wondering, Who it could be? I thought it might be Clemence, about whose death I received news in my last...

... of the Shropshire lad. Her primary sources for this interpretation were her conversations with Laurence and Clemence Housman in the summer of 1952 and her two-year corre­ spondence with Laurence Housman, who confirmed her suspicion of the poet s sexual inversion. If, as Mrs. Hawkins writes, the Shropshire Lad...

... was that the victors would exercise too much clemency in dealing with those who had been defeated. Even St. Paul gets treated rather roughly by Mill: I hold him to have been the first great corrupter of Xtianity. He never saw Christ, never was under his personal influence, hardly ever alludes to any of his deeds...

... him, so endears him to his subjects, as magna­ nimity. Thus the Empress Livia (Acte IV., Scene III.) : . . . la clemence est la plus belle marque Qui fasse a, I univers connoitre un vrai monarque. In the seventeenth century one might not express his opinion freely regarding the relative merits...

... as one of the conspirators for the assassination of Lincoln. There was doubt of her guilt at the time, and a majority of the military commission which tried her recommended clemency; but the recommendation seems to have been improperly kept from the President s notice. Mr. Dewitt s conclusion...

... discover, and as might be expected, were hostile to the present state of things and were all Deists or mem­ bers of secret societies. He referred again to the heavily compro­ mised Torrijos, for whom, as he had intimated earlier, no clemency might be expected. Greater familiarity with conditions...

.... Shortly after his inauguration several delegations called upon the new president to ascertain his views regarding the South. Andrew Johnson s Administration. 173 To one of these Johnson declared, I know it is very easy, gentle­ men, for anyone who is so disposed to acquire a reputation for clemency...

.... Shortly after his inauguration several delegations called upon the new president to ascertain his views regarding the South. Andrew Johnson s Administration. 173 To one of these Johnson declared, I know it is very easy, gentle­ men, for anyone who is so disposed to acquire a reputation for clemency...

... moral for the reader to draw. But, he apostrophizes him, Why deserve that people should say to you: Moralist, you know all, but you are cruel Is the office of art not to admit any element of clemency and sweet­ ness under the excuse that it is not true ? 28 If for nothing but artistic reasons...

... that is difficult to match. An odd female character combining weirdness and attractiveness is that of the beautiful octoroon, Palmyre Philosophe, with her re­ pulsive, half-witted Congo dwarf, whose devotion to her mis­ tress is especially marked. Of the minor female characters the most noteworthy is Clemence...

.... Their children, he wrote, were bred up in the principles of honor, justice, courage, modesty, clemency, religion, and love of their country. Here Swift in his wisdom was trying to suggest to a generation shot through with political chicanery, public dishonesty, and widespread immorality the truth that neither...

..., possibly to give him success in the elections of the pres­ ent year. While he is selecting red-handed rebels for congres­ sional clemency, I would choose that he should select a little from both sides so that there should not be any disturbance in the effect on our national politics. . I grant the senator...

.... Turnbull said it had come to the point where a general bill was necessary. He gave as reasons for this opinion the fact that individual cases gave too much trouble and occupied too much time, that amnesty was being used for political pur­ poses, and that the singling out of certain persons for clemency...

... and Punish- ment. According to Sitze, Beccaria did not simply argue that state executions were inefficient and ineffective at deterring crime; Beccaria also called into question the sovereign right of grace, the right of the sovereign to exercise clemency, and in so doing “problematized not only...

... would not be the vol­ untary cats-paw of electioneering clemency. So he was per­ mitted to continue in prison until October. During the inter­ vening months, while his body was constrained, his extraor- V 12:114-118. 14 May 17, 1800. 154 The South Atlantic Quarterly dinarily active mind was free Jo...

... depends on its leaders. The tyrant, with his life of injustice, suspicion, terror, and cruelty, is continually regarded with deep hatred. It is only in a democracy that one finds justice, law, freedom, clemency. Laws are the safe-guard of a democ­ racy, and a democracy is the safe-guard of laws...

..., I, 405). In the meantime Howells had become involved in the Hay­ market affair and had actively taken part in seeking clemency for the convicted anarchists (LL, I, 393). In 1887 he heard and met Laurence Gronlund of the Socialist Labor party and read his Cooperative Commonwealth. He read William...

...). The injustices of the medi- eval fortress have given birth to this ugly mechanism of vengeance. When Gauvain’s head is severed on the guillotine, Cimourdain, who has Death in the First Person  543 refused the army’s appeal for clemency, pulls his pistol from...

... such a beautiful voice! I could have sat all day and listened to him if my shoes hadn t pinched my feet so. Some of his problems as governor stirred him deeply. A con­ demned murderer appealed to him for clemency. There was no question of the man s guilt. The Governor saw the man and talked with him; then he...